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...Another Black, Manafort client is Angolan Rebel Jonas Savimbi (see box). Not to be outdone, the Marxist regime of Angola hired Bob Gray's firm to front for it in Washington. Two years ago, Gray told TIME that he checks with his "good friend," CIA Director William Casey, before taking on clients who might be inimical to U.S. interests. It is unclear just what Casey could have said this time, since the CIA is currently funneling $15 million in covert aid to Savimbi to help his rebellion against the Angolan regime. Last week outraged Savimbi backers chained themselves...
...world, ranging from Soviet foreign policy to the impact of declining oil prices, and pesters the CIA with an average of two requests a week for highly detailed analyses of those issues. To many in the CIA, all this looks like an attempt to make Durenberger rather than Casey the effective head of the agency; the two are barely on speaking terms...
Like almost every other issue in Washington this year, their dispute is coming to center on the budget. But the dispute is muted because Casey is perhaps the only official in the entire Government whose spending proposals cannot even be discussed in public. They are buried in the Pentagon budget and evaluated in detail only by the 15 Senators and 16 Representatives on the watchdog committees. For all their misgivings, the committees approved spending increases that averaged 20% annually during the early Reagan years. Best guess as to the current total: $2 billion...
However, the master plan that Casey delivered to the Senate last week (it goes to the House Intelligence Committee this week) may prompt a far more detailed examination of the CIA's plans than ever. Durenberger has been pushing for such a document ever since he became head of the committee, on the ground that legislators cannot properly assess any specific CIA budget request unless they can see how it fits into a set of national intelligence priorities --assumi ng that one exists. As far as anyone knows, none did until last week. The closest thing was a paper called...
...operation truly secret anymore: ! U.S. bankrolling of the contra rebels in Nicaragua leaked out swiftly, and the Administration and Congress are now debating quite overtly the amount and type of "covert" aid to be extended to guerrillas battling the Marxist government of Angola. Even so, Congress remains suspicious that Casey is being evasive or misleading, while the CIA suspects the legislators of an itch to control delicate operations. Unhappily neither can be proved wrong...